"of symbolist elements, where an entire philosophical position is summed up by the manifestation of a single image. For example, the narrator says that on the journey they saw ""three trees against a low sky""; the single image of the three trees implies the historical future (the crucifixion) and the spiritual truth of the future (the skies lowered and heaven opened). Journey of the Magi Journey of the Magi is a 43-line poem written in 1927 by T. S. Eliot (1888–1965). It is one of five poems that Eliot contributed for a series of 38 pamphlets by several authors collectively"
"in August 1928, ""Animula"" in October 1929, ""Marina"" in September 1930, and ""Triumphal March"" in October 1931. Four of Eliot's five ""Ariel"" poems, including ""Journey of the Magi"", were accompanied by illustrations by American-born avant garde artist, E. McKnight Kauffer. Faber & Gwyer, Ltd., printed the ""Journey of the Magi"" in a 7¼"" × 4 ¾"", Octavo (8vo) pamphlet ""line block in black with brown and grey; casing, thin card covered with yellow laid paper."" The font of the cover and poem text was ""Imprint"" created by Gerard Meynell & J. H. Mason in 1913 for the printing trade magazine"
"In 1927, Eliot was asked by his employer, Geoffrey Faber, one of the partners in Faber & Gwyer, to write one poem each year for a series of illustrated pamphlets with holiday themes to be sent to the firms clients and business acquaintances as Christmas greetings. This series, called the ""Ariel Series"", would release 38 pamphlets from a selection of English writers and poets from 1927 through 1931. The first poem that Eliot wrote, ""Journey of the Magi"", was released as the eighth in the series in August 1927. Eliot would follow with four more poems: ""A Song for Simeon"""
"poems in 1936 and 1963. In the previous year, Eliot had converted to Anglo-Catholicism and his poetry, starting with the ""Ariel Poems"" (1927–1931) and ""Ash Wednesday"" (1930), took on a decidedly religious character. In the poem, Eliot retells the story of the Magi who travelled to Palestine to visit the newborn Jesus according to the Gospel of Matthew. It is a narrative, told from the point of view of one of the magi, that expresses themes of alienation and a feeling of powerlessness in a world that has changed. The poem's dramatic monologue incorporates quotations and literary allusions to works"
"The King's Pilgrimage ""The King's Pilgrimage"" is a poem and book about the journey made by King George V in May 1922 to visit the World War I cemeteries and memorials being constructed at the time in France and Belgium by the Imperial War Graves Commission. This journey was part of the wider pilgrimage movement that saw tens of thousands of bereaved relatives from the United Kingdom and the Empire visit the battlefields of the Great War in the years that followed the Armistice. The poem was written by the British author and poet Rudyard Kipling, while the text in"
"Faber & Gwyer, to write one poem each year for a series of illustrated pamphlets with holiday themes to be sent to the firms clients and business acquaintances as Christmas greetings. This series, called the ""Ariel Series"", would release 38 pamphlets from a selection of English writers and poets from 1927 through 1931. The first poem that Eliot wrote, ""The Journey of the Magi"", was released as the eighth in the series in August 1927. For the second, ""A Song for Simeon"", Eliot turned to an event at the end of Nativity narrative in the Gospel of Luke. Faber released"
"""Ariel Series"", consisted of 38 pamphlets published between 1927 and 1931 featuring poems and brief prose from a selection of English writers and poets. The first poem that Eliot wrote, ""The Journey of the Magi"", was printed as the eighth in the series in August 1927. For the second, ""A Song for Simeon"", Eliot turned to an event at the end of Nativity narrative in the Gospel of Luke. The printing of the poem, the sixteenth in the series, was completed on 24 September 1928. Eliot would follow these with three more poems: ""Animula"" in October 1929, ""Marina"" in September"
"His doctrine was High Church, and in his life he was humble, pious, and charitable. He continues to influence religious thinkers to the present day, and was cited as an influence by T. S. Eliot, among others. Eliot also borrowed, almost word for word and without his usual acknowledgement, a passage from Andrewes' 1622 Christmas Day sermon for the opening of his poem ""Journey of the Magi"". In his 1997 novel ""Timequake"", Kurt Vonnegut suggested that Andrewes was ""the greatest writer in the English language,"" citing as proof the first few verses of the 23rd Psalm. His translation work has"
"Eldorado (poem) ""Eldorado"" is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in April 1849. The poem describes the journey of a ""gallant knight"" in search of the legendary El Dorado. The knight spends much of his life on this quest. In his old age, he finally meets a ""pilgrim shadow"" who points the way through ""the Valley of Shadow"". It was first published in the April 21, 1849, issue of the Boston-based ""The Flag of Our Union"". The poem is a narrative made up of four six-line stanzas, known as sestets. Poe uses the term ""shadow"" in the"
"included the original illustrations. The poem is an account of the journey from the point of view of one of the magi. It picks up Eliot's consistent theme of alienation and a feeling of powerlessness in a world that has changed. In this regard, with a speaker who laments outliving his world, the poem recalls Arnold's ""Dover Beach"", as well as a number of Eliot's own works. Instead of a celebration of the wonders of the journey, the poem is largely a complaint about a journey that was painful and tedious. It begins with five lines adapted from a passage"
"The Pilgrimage The Pilgrimage (, ""Diary of a Mage"") is a 1987 novel by Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho. It is a recollection of Paulo's experiences as he made his way across northern Spain on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. The novel serves as part adventure story, part guide to self-discovery. The story begins in 1986 when Coelho undertakes his initiation into the order Regnus Agnus Mundi (RAM), which he subsequently fails. He is then told that he must embark on a pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago to find the sword that is the symbol of his acceptance into"
"the poem himself. In 2012 the poem was recited and is a central part of the plot of the horror-comedy film ""Eldorado"". Eldorado (poem) ""Eldorado"" is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in April 1849. The poem describes the journey of a ""gallant knight"" in search of the legendary El Dorado. The knight spends much of his life on this quest. In his old age, he finally meets a ""pilgrim shadow"" who points the way through ""the Valley of Shadow"". It was first published in the April 21, 1849, issue of the Boston-based ""The Flag of Our"
"Hope Mirrlees (Helen) Hope Mirrlees (8 April 1887 – 1 August 1978) was a British translator, poet and novelist. She is best known for the 1926 ""Lud-in-the-Mist"", a fantasy novel and influential classic, and for """", a modernist poem that critic Julia Briggs deemed ""modernism's lost masterpiece, a work of extraordinary energy and intensity, scope and ambition."" Born in Chislehurst, Kent and raised in Scotland and South Africa, Mirrlees attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before going up to Newnham College, Cambridge to study Greek. While at Cambridge, Mirrlees developed a close relationship with famous classicist Jane Ellen Harrison,"
"Merchant Adventurers (Elgar) ""Merchant Adventurers"" is a poem written by Alfred Noyes, and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar. It was one of the songs (also known as the """"Pageant of Empire"""") written to be performed in the ""Pageant of Empire"" at the British Empire Exhibition on 21 July 1924. The song refers to the merchant adventurers who set sail from England in ships, to make their living in adventurous overseas trade. There are two verses, each with a refrain """"...Glory, glory everlasting in the lordship of the sea"""" which may be sung by a chorus (SATB)"
"The Wanderings of Oisin The Wanderings of Oisin ( ) is an epic poem published by William Butler Yeats in 1889 in the book ""The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems"". It was his first publication outside magazines, and immediately won him a reputation as a significant poet. This narrative poem takes the form of a dialogue between the aged Irish hero Oisín and St. Patrick, the man traditionally responsible for converting Ireland to Christianity. Most of the poem is spoken by Oisin, relating his three-hundred year sojourn in the isles of Faerie. Oisin has not been a popular poem"
"The Wanderings of Oisin The Wanderings of Oisin ( ) is an epic poem published by William Butler Yeats in 1889 in the book ""The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems"". It was his first publication outside magazines, and immediately won him a reputation as a significant poet. This narrative poem takes the form of a dialogue between the aged Irish hero Oisín and St. Patrick, the man traditionally responsible for converting Ireland to Christianity. Most of the poem is spoken by Oisin, relating his three-hundred year sojourn in the isles of Faerie. Oisin has not been a popular poem"
"of the Magi"" and three of the other poems under the heading ""Ariel Poems"" for an edition of Eliot's collected poems. (""Triumphal March"" appears as Section 1 of ""Coriolan"" in the ""Unfinished Poems"" section.) When Faber released another series in 1954, Eliot included a sixth poem, ""The Cultivation of Christmas Trees"", which was added to Faber's 1963 edition of his collected poems. Both editions of collected poems were published in the United States by Harcourt, Brace & Company. All six poems were published together as a separate publication for the first time by Faber & Faber in 2014. This publication"
"The Mental Traveller ""The Mental Traveller"" is a poem by William Blake. It is part of a collection of unpublished works called The Pickering Manuscript and was written in a manner that suggests the poem was to be read directly from the collection. The poem is about travelling in the realm of the mind. Blake generalizes here ""about the spiritual history of mankind out the experience of his own spiritual history."" It can be also understood as a cycle history of relations between society and idea of liberty in the form of a male and female that grow older and"
"owes much to Buffon's ""Histoire naturelle"" and Montesquieu's ""Esprit des lois"". ""The Traveller"" was the poem which made Goldsmith's reputation. Dr. Johnson, so Boswell reports, said that ""there had not been so fine a poem since Pope's time"", and he went on to write a brief but laudatory article on it in the ""Critical Review"". Two months after publication the ""St. James's Chronicle"" praised ""the beauties of this poem"" as ""great and various"", and this opinion was seconded by the ""Gentleman's Magazine"" and in large measure by the ""Monthly Review"", though the ""Monthly""’s reviewer also took Goldsmith to task for"
"soul of the first living person that crossed it. Robin Ddu or Black Robin the Magician, or more correctly Robin Ddu ap Siencyn Bledrydd of Anglesey, lived circa 1450. He was a poet and sometimes a known as a prophetic poet, and about ninety of his pieces are still preserved on manuscripts. It would appear that Robin also pretended to be a sorcerer or wizard and he appears in many Welsh tales. In the later 19th century, with the coming of the Cambrian Railways, numerous schemes were proposed for the construction of a railway to Beddgelert. Some were started and"
"as “an enchanting creature, very sensitive, delicate and highly strung, with a fantastic imagination”. In 1918, the Oxford publisher Benjamin Henry Blackwell brought out her first poetry collection, ""Dreams and Journeys"", several poems from which were soon anthologised. One of those, “The Farmer 1917”, conjures an evocative rural scene surrounded by the anguish of war, which made it a candidate for ""The Paths of Glory"" (1919), a post-war anthology covering the broader field of poetry written during the period. Later it was reused in the anthologies ""Modern British Poetry"" (New York 1925), ""Twentieth Century Verse"" (Toronto 1945), ""Men who March"
"of mixed voices. Merchant Adventurers (Elgar) ""Merchant Adventurers"" is a poem written by Alfred Noyes, and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar. It was one of the songs (also known as the """"Pageant of Empire"""") written to be performed in the ""Pageant of Empire"" at the British Empire Exhibition on 21 July 1924. The song refers to the merchant adventurers who set sail from England in ships, to make their living in adventurous overseas trade. There are two verses, each with a refrain """"...Glory, glory everlasting in the lordship of the sea"""" which may be sung by"
"the proper explorer. Portions of Whitman's ""Prayer of Columbus"" have been inscribed in gilded letters in the marble wall of the Archives/Navy Memorial metro station in Washington, D.C. In modern times the poem has been set to music by various composers including: Prayer of Columbus ""Prayer of Columbus"" is a poem written by American poet Walt Whitman. The poem evokes the enterprising spirit of the Christopher Columbus in a God-fearing light, who rediscovered the North American continent in 1492, leading to the colonization of the Americas by the emerging European powers. Although the Viking Leif Ericson has generally been credited"
"The Wanderer (Maykov poem) The Wanderer (Strannik, Стра′нник) is a poem by Apollon Maykov, first published in the No.1, January 1867 issue of ""The Russian Messenger"". It was dedicated to Fyodor Tyutchev and subtitled: ""First part of the drama The Thirsty One"". In his commentaries to the first, magazine version of the poem, Maykov explained: Beguny′ (The Runners) or The Wanderers, or the Sopelsky Agreement (Sopelkovskoye soglasiye), after the Sopelki village where they were based, are all the names for a priest-less sect, representing one of the raskol's extreme factions. The wanderer has to leave behind everything that he’s ever"
"Sailing to Byzantium ""Sailing to Byzantium"" is a poem by William Butler Yeats, first published in the 1928 collection ""The Tower"". It comprises four stanzas in ottava rima, each made up of eight ten-syllable lines. It uses a journey to Byzantium (Constantinople) as a metaphor for a spiritual journey. Yeats explores his thoughts and musings on how immortality, art, and the human spirit may converge. Through the use of various poetic techniques, Yeats's ""Sailing to Byzantium"" describes the metaphorical journey of a man pursuing his own vision of eternal life as well as his conception of paradise. Written in 1926"
"Os Lusíadas Os Lusíadas (), usually translated as The Lusiads, is a Portuguese epic poem written by Luís Vaz de Camões ( – 1580) and first published in 1572. It is widely regarded as the most important work of Portuguese literature and is frequently compared to Virgil's ""Aeneid"" (1st c. BC). The work celebrates the discovery of a sea route to India by the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama (1469–1524). The ten cantos of the poem are in ottava rima and total 1,102 stanzas. Written in Homeric fashion, the poem focuses mainly on a fantastical interpretation of the Portuguese voyages"
"to sailors who thought it was a naval songbook. Coleridge made several modifications to the poem over the years. In the second edition of ""Lyrical Ballads"", published in 1800, he replaced many of the archaic words. The poem may have been inspired by James Cook's second voyage of exploration (1772–1775) of the South Seas and the Pacific Ocean; Coleridge's tutor, William Wales, was the astronomer on Cook's flagship and had a strong relationship with Cook. On this second voyage Cook crossed three times into the Antarctic Circle to determine whether the fabled great southern continent existed. Critics have also suggested"
"by Michael Swanwick, was published by Temporary Culture in 2009. ""The Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees"" was published by Fyfield Books (Carcanet Press) in 2011 (edited by Sandeep Parmar). It will include previously unpublished poems, the full text of ""Paris"", her later poems and prose essays from the 1920s. Sandeep Parmar is currently writing a biography of Mirrlees as well. Hope Mirrlees (Helen) Hope Mirrlees (8 April 1887 – 1 August 1978) was a British translator, poet and novelist. She is best known for the 1926 ""Lud-in-the-Mist"", a fantasy novel and influential classic, and for """", a modernist poem that"
"poet."" In 1990, Birdsall Viault argued that Blake ""demonstrated his imaginative, sensitive, and mystical genius in such poems as ""The Lamb, The Tiger"", and ""The Mental Traveller""."" The Mental Traveller ""The Mental Traveller"" is a poem by William Blake. It is part of a collection of unpublished works called The Pickering Manuscript and was written in a manner that suggests the poem was to be read directly from the collection. The poem is about travelling in the realm of the mind. Blake generalizes here ""about the spiritual history of mankind out the experience of his own spiritual history."" It can"
"The Magician (Maugham novel) The Magician is a novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham, originally published in 1908. In this tale, the magician Oliver Haddo, a caricature of Aleister Crowley, attempts to create life. Crowley wrote a critique of this book under the pen name Oliver Haddo, in which he accused Maugham of plagiarism. Maugham wrote ""The Magician"" in London, after he had spent some time living in Paris, where he met Aleister Crowley. The novel was later republished with a foreword by Maugham entitled ""A Fragment of Autobiography"". The novel inspired a film of the same name directed"
"The Gift of the Magi ""The Gift of the Magi"" is a short story by O. Henry first published in 1905. The story tells of a young husband and wife and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money. As a sentimental story with a moral lesson about gift-giving, it has been popular for adaptation, especially for presentation at Christmas time. The plot and its twist ending are well-known, and the ending is generally considered an example of comic irony. It was allegedly written at Pete's Tavern on Irving Place"
"Romantic subjectivity. In 1763, at the age of 17, Jones wrote the poem ""Caissa"", based on a 658-line poem called ""Scacchia, Ludus"" published in 1527 by Marco Girolamo Vida, giving a mythical origin of chess that has become well known in the chess world. This poem he wrote in English. In the poem the nymph Caissa initially repels the advances of Mars, the god of war. Spurned, Mars seeks the aid of the god of sport, who creates the game of chess as a gift for Mars to win Caissa's favour. Mars wins her over with the game. Caissa has"
"The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Dukas) "" The Sorcerer's Apprentice (French: ""L'apprenti sorcier"") is a symphonic poem in the key of F minor by the French composer Paul Dukas, written in 1897. Subtitled ""Scherzo after a ballad by Goethe"", the piece was based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1797 poem of the same name. By far the most performed and recorded of Dukas's works, its notable appearance in the Walt Disney 1940 animated film ""Fantasia"" has led to the piece becoming widely known to audiences outside the classical concert hall. Inspired by the Goethe poem, Dukas's work is part of the larger"